Houston bakers trapped inside their shop spent two days making cakes for Hurricane Harvey victims

They had nowhere to go, so they used their time (and a lot of flour) to do some good. Photos courtesy of El Bulillo Bakery via Facebook

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As Hurricane Harvey continues to devastate the Houston area, stories of compassion continue to rise to the surface.

Four bakers who work at El Bolillo Bakery in Houston were trapped by flood waters for two days.

They used their time to make pan dulce and hundreds of loaves of bread for hurricane victims.

Hurricane Harvey, which continues to ravage Texas and the gulf coast, is on track to be the costliest natural disaster in US history. But in the wake of the tragedy that has destroyed thousands of homes are some uplifting stories.

Four bakers at the wildly popular Mexican bakery in Houston, El Bolillo, were trapped for two days inside their store due to rising flood waters. They decided to use their time — and nearly 4,500 pounds of flour — to make pan dulce and thousands of loaves of bread to feed flood victims.

Luckily, their store remained dry and with electricity so they were able to work through the day and night to help flood victims.

"By the time the owner managed to get to them, they had made so much bread that we took the loaves to loads of emergency centers across the city for people affected by the floods," Brian Alvarado, the manager of the bakery, told The Independent. " We didn't count exactly how many loaves they made, but they used 4,400 pounds of flour."

Since then, their act of kindness has gone viral and people responded on social media with words of gratitude and encouragement: